Speech recognition experts at OGI School of Science & Engineering receive nearly $700,000 in grants
...athematical psychologist, was a longtime Bell Labs researcher who joined the Hillsboro, Ore.-based OHSU school to focus on ways to make speech technology useful for education and health. Computer systems, obviously, do not hear the way humans do, though they can be trained to "talk," albeit without much intonat...Study: Low-carb diet more effective than low-fat diet
...sion. "This diet can be quite powerful," said lead researcher Will Yancy, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and a research associate at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, N.C. "We found that the low-carb diet was more effective for weight loss," Yancy added. ...Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...ter half of the day," said James Wyatt, PhD, sleep researcher at Rush University Medical Center and lead author on the study. Though many studies have measured caffeine's sleep-averting effects, most do not take into account that sleep is governed by two opposing but interacting processes. The circadian system...Smokers welcome help in quitting when offered at clinic visits
...ssation help to smokers," said Michael Fiore, lead researcher and CTRI director. "This study demonstrated convincingly that smokers are interested in getting help to quit. In fact, over two-thirds said, 'Yes' to offers of cessation treatment even when that was not the reason for their doctor visit. And, when...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...ternational recruitment is underway to bring a top researcher to HMS. Dr. Farrell is a passionate advocate of the discipline. "From my viewpoint, it is time for the medical profession to wake up to sleep," he said. "And it seems that the reason that medicine has been slow to take seriously sleep problems, and s...Early childhood ear infections linked to asthma
...dhood may lead to asthma later in life," said lead researcher Kamal Eldeirawi, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. "It is possible that specific viruses or bacteria that cause recurrent ear infections may play a major role in the ...Living wills don't work, study says
... Hastings Center Report by a U-M internal medicine researcher and a professor of law and internal medicine. What they find is provocative: The documents designed to help people choose the treatments they would like when dying fail to meet five key criteria for success. Worse, the evidence suggests they don't w...Obesity reversed in mice by destroying blood vessels that service fat cells
...al School Professor Judah Folkman, M.D., the first researcher to promote the concept that adipose tissue mass may be controlled by angiogenesis (the process of new blood vessel formation from established ones). Given their belief that blood vessels that feed adipose tissue are different from all other kinds of ...Univ. of Pittsburgh researcher presents six-year results of botox injections for bladder dysfunction
...to a study presented by a University of Pittsburgh researcher at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in San Francisco. Results will be published in abstract 517 in the AUA proceedings. "Bladder dysfunction affects a staggering number of people worldwide," said Michael Chancellor, M.D...Obese men may have increased risk for prostate cancer recurrence after surgery
...ady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins and lead researcher of the study. The study involved 1,106 patients treated at five Veteran's Administration and active military hospitals across the country. Moderately and severely obese patients -- defined as those having a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 35 k...High blood testosterone levels associated with increased prostate cancer risk
...ady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins and lead researcher of the study. "Since testosterone replacement therapy increases the amount of free testosterone in the blood, older men considering or receiving testosterone replacement should be counseled as to the association until data from long-term clinical tri...Deaf-blind woman deafer than deaf-blind man
Dutch researcher Ronald Pennings has found new clinical and genetic...in the hearing loss now appears to be greater. The researcher also discovered that the onset of the deterioration in vision probably occurs later in USH2a patient...American genetic abnormality also discovered in the Netherlands
... and that the hearing loss increases with age. The researcher also investigated the first family in the Netherlands with the DFNA20/26 syndrome. In this syndrome the hearing already starts to deteriorate at a young age. The high frequencies are damaged first and later the middle and low frequencies. The clinica...Weight loss and exercise effective arthritis treatment
...ne at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a co- researcher on the study. Pahor is director of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center of Wake Forest University. Arthritis is the leading cause of physical disability in adults, affecting more than 70 million Americans. Marked by joint damage...One-drug therapy approach to treating bipolar disorder
...or of psychiatry at Case and a nationally renowned researcher in bipolar disease. The Center he co-directs in Cleveland with pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Robert Findling is the first NIMH-funded center exclusively dedicated to the development of new treatments for bipolar disorder. "There was a dramatic respons...Cancer gene therapy news backgrounder: New ideas fuel next generation gene therapy research
...ay ascend, says Jack Roth, M.D., an M. D. Anderson researcher who is nationally known for his pioneering gene th...ad," says Gary Clayman, M.D., another gene therapy researcher at M. D. Anderson. "Therefore, a clear barrier to gene therapy is addressing that spread in an effec...Exercise helps heart attack patients who are depressed, without social support
...f their depression or social isolation," said lead researcher James Blumenthal, Ph.D., Duke behavioral psychologist. The results of the study were published May 4, 2004, in the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, a journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. "Exercise was associated wit...Kids' year-round asthma symptoms triggered by parent's second-hand smoke
...The new analysis was conducted by Kathryn Slish, a researcher in the U-M Department of Pediatrics, with assistant professor of pediatrics Michael Cabana, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. The PACE project is led by U-M School of Public Health Dean Noreen Clark, Ph.D., and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We set...Pap smears, mammography should be targeted at healthy elders, study says
...eally increased in healthy older women," says lead researcher Louise C. Walter, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine in the geriatrics division at SFVAMC. "The problem is that there is still a population of very healthy older women who are not being screened who should be. And there's a population of very s...San Diego, CA An independent researcher reporting at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) finds that "Custom" or Wavefront-guided LASIK produces superior vision quality compared to traditional LASIK eye surgery. "While conventional LASIK is...